Untitled Flashcards Set 2

Vocabulary List: Lesson 2

Activities of daily living (ADLs): daily personal care tasks, such as bathing; caring for skin, nails, hair, and teeth; dressing; toileting; eating and drinking; walking; and transferring.

Assistive or adaptive devices: special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform activities of daily living.

Charting: writing down important information and observations about residents.

Professional: having to do with work or a job.

Personal: relating to life outside one’s job, such as family, friends, and home life.

Professionalism: how a person behaves when on the job; it includes how a person dresses, the words he uses, and the things he talks about.

Compassionate: being caring, concerned, considerate, empathetic, and understanding.

Empathy: entering into the feelings of others.

Sympathy: sharing in the feelings and difficulties of others.

Tactful: showing sensitivity and having a sense of what is appropriate when dealing with others.

Conscientious: guided by a sense of right and wrong; having principles.

Chain of command: the line of authority within a facility or agency.

Liability: a legal term that means someone can be held responsible for harming someone else.

Scope of practice: defines the things that healthcare providers are legally allowed to do and how to do them correctly.

Delegation: transferring responsibility to a person for a specific task.